Privacy
Policy
Please
find below the terms of the "Privacy Policy" for the web site “1pauctions.co.uk”.
Valid from the 1st
of January 2009 to all subscribers.
NOTE: by
“we”, “our”, “us”, we mean “1pauctions.co.uk”.
As a small
company, we intend to provide the best service as possible to our customers,
and this starts with the full respect of the customers privacy. Please read the
following “Privacy Policy” to find out how we use and protect your personal
information. If you have any further questions about our general privacy
principles, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time through our
“Contact Us” link.
IMPORTANT:
By accepting our “Privacy Policy”, you expressly consent for us to use and
disclose your personal information the way defined in this “Privacy Policy”. If
you do not agree with this statement, then please do not register with us.
Legal Age
for Subscription:
Please note that for legal reasons, 1pauctions.co.uk
web site is ONLY available for adults above 18 years old.
Visitors under 18years old are not allowed to subscribe to our web site, but
they are allowed to use our services under the supervision of their parents.
Collection of Personal Information:
Any
anonymous visitor can enter our web site with as limited amount of access. If
you decide to subscribe to our online web auction site, we will require you to
provide us with a minimum amount of personal relevant information, which will
be automatically collected by our services and kept into our database. If you
decide at any time during your subscription that the information asked is too
personal and you do not want to provide it to us, then please do not continue
the subscription process, unless the information was optional. In that case,
just leave the field empty.
Any
information you provide to us must be your PERSONAL and CORRECT information and
we reserve the right to accept new subscribers after checking the information
provided. We may also require you to provide us with your banking details, so
that we can charge you for any of the online services that you would be using.
Please NOTE that for every subscriber,
his personal IP address is recorded for further checks of his identity.
The
data collection is essentially used to improve our services to satisfy your
needs, and provide a better targeted advertisement. For example, we shall keep
in our database the categories the most watched, the area where you come from,
the items you have bided on, the items you have been watching, but also any
comments left by other users about your
behaviour etc… We may from time to time decide to provide to third
parties these information BUT this will be done without divulging your personal
information, and as a group result rather than individual.
Please note that the usage of
Cookies is integrated in our online based auction site. A Cookie is a unique
string of letters and numbers that the web server stores in a file on your hard
drive. These files contain data about you and the computer system you are on
and the data is used by the web site to track your choices and custom tailor
responses for future visits. Depending on the Operating System and also
Internet Browser you are using, you can disable the Cookies, but please be
aware that some features on our web site may then no longer be accessible by
you.
Our
Disclosure of Your Information:
1pauctions.co.uk
and his team will never voluntarily disclose your personal account information
to any third party. BUT in some rare occasions, we may have to divulge some or
all information concerning you; these exceptions are stated below:
·
1pauctions Community:
As soon as you subscribe to our online auction site, you automatically
become part of our community but only your User ID is displayed
throughout the Site and is therefore available to the public. Please note that
anyone will be able to access the information on User Ids, such as: selling
items, bidding items, feedbacks etc, throughout the entire web site. This is
the reason why you must have a unique User ID and also why it is recommended not
to provide too much personal information in your User ID, otherwise you may be
recognised. If you are involved in a transaction, we may have also to reveal
your email address to the other subscriber part of the transaction, for payment
methods.
·
Legal Infringement
:
In the case of any legal action,
conflicts between subscribers, fraud or any copyright infringement, 1pauctions.co.uk
will fully cooperates with law enforcement inquiries. By subscribing to our
site, you expressly authorise us to provide to the competent authorities any of
your personal relevant information if an investigation on you has been opened.
·
Hackers:
Although we are trying to protect the private
information of our entire community, and are taking all the required security
steps to do so, we cannot take any responsibilities in the case of hackers
accessing your personal information. But we will do our best to help you in
such case.
Contacting
You:
By
accepting this “Privacy Policy” you expressly agree that we may use your
personal contact information to send you e-mails regarding targeted
advertisements, special offers, Newsletters (please note that you can disable
the option to receive our Newsletters). You also agree on the presence of
advertisement banners.
We
will also use our rights to access your personal information in the case of
problems between you and another user. We will then contact you personally in
order to resolve any issues, and avoid any litigation.
We
allow our visitors to use our email services to send information about specific
items placed on auction on our web site. These email addresses are not used for
any other purposes, and will therefore not be kept in our database nor provided
to any other third party.
Your
Personal Login Information:
Please note
that your Login information (i.e. your User ID, your password) are your
personal property and should only be detained by you as you will be held
responsible for any purchases or fees made with your personal Login
information. Your User ID must be unique and should contain the minimum
information about your private data (e.g. you should avoid using your family
name). If you decide to provide your Login information to another user, please
be aware that you accept to do so at your own risks. We strongly recommend you
not to give your account details to anyone for security purposes. If you think
that you Login Information is no longer safe, please change immediately your
password through our secure web site. If you require to also change your ID
Username, please contact us directly, and we reserve the right to decide on the
procedure to do so.
We would like to remind our
community that we are trying to do our best in protecting all your personal
information that you provide to us. Therefore we are using different known methods
to block any unauthorised usage of your personal account. Unfortunately,
Internet has proven to contain security-holes, putting your security at risks.
By subscribing to our web site, you expressly
declare understanding such risks and consequently accept them.
Copyright
Infringement:
We respects the intellectual property of
others, and we therefore ask our subscribers to do the same. We may, in
appropriate circumstances and at our own discretion, disable and/or terminate
the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of
others. We refuse to take any responsibilities of our subscribers infringing
the intellectual property rights of others, but we will fight against them.
Please do not attempt to sell or even advertise illegal copies of any music,
videos, games, software, books etc…
We also would like our subscribers to take
their responsibilities in refusing purchasing any item infringing the
intellectual property rights of others BUT also contacting us immediately to
let us know of the infraction to our rules.
Amending
our “Privacy Policy”:
Please note that we reserve
our rights in amending our “Privacy Policy” at any time in order to adapt it to
the constant changes of the Internet World, and of the Data Collection Management.
The modifications will be notified in our Newsletters, and on our “Hot News”
section present in our Home page.
For new subscribers, the
amended terms of our “Privacy Policy” should take immediate effect, whilst for
older subscribers, a delay of ONE Month from the date the “Privacy Policy” is
updated will be provided to them to either accept the terms or reject them by
unsubscribing to our web site. Please note that any old subscriber not
resigning his subscription with us within the one month notice, will be
automatically considered as accepting the Terms of the amended terms of our
“Private Policy”.
Payments:
Our web site is primarily used to submit
auctions, involving purchasing and selling items. When placing an auction, you
expressly agree to pay the fees as stated on the home page of our web site
(under the link “Site Fees”). You therefore must make all the necessary
payments to clear out your account balance on time. Every transaction, or fee
must be cleared within 30days from its original date. For any account balance
not cleared within that limit, We reserve our rights to indulge a “Late Payment
Fee” of 2% of the total owned amount on a 30days basis (i.e. a “Late Payment
Fee” of 24% of the total owned amount on a Yearly basis).
In the case you decide to place any bids on
items, you expressly declare that you are in the possession of the amount of
your bid. You also expressly understand that in the case you won the auction,
you MUST complete the transaction, and therefore fully pay the seller (unless
an agreement between you and the seller was reached).
Please note that in the case of non-paid
fees by a seller for an auctions, we reserve our rights to maintain secret the
details of the buyer, until the fees are fully paid.
In cases of abuses, we reserve our right to
immediately froze your account, and take any legal action in order to resolve
our financial issues.
NOTE:
If you decide to establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge
for the display of your auctions, we must collect some additional information,
including (but not limited to) a billing address, a credit card number and a
credit card expiration date.
Un-subscribing:
You
may use your right at any moment, providing that you have cleared your account
balance with us and with any subscriber you may be involved with in a
transaction, to close your account with our web site community. To do so, We
will need a written request sent through the contact us link. We will then,
upon verification of your balance, remove your information from our community.
In
case of any legal infringements or disputes, we reserve our right to preserve
your information in order to provide any evidence to the competent authority.